> Energy is not the main reason. China would still stand with Russia without energy.
Of course it will because Russia also has cheap raw materials not just exclusively oil and gas. At the same time China does not invest into Russian economy because they don't want competition.
Weak Russia is more beneficial for China to buy commodities for cheap and then sell Chinese products back.
> China could never support a pro-Western Ukraine in the first place.
China is one of largest Ukraine trade partners before and during the war. Ukraine even lobbied for ability to buy Chinese drone parts using EU funds when EU unable to fulfill.
So nope - China dont care. They are trading with both Russia and Ukraine.
Having trade relations does not mean China supports a country. US has always been China’s largest trading partner, but China <-> US relations can hardly be called "friendly".
The CCP government has absolute control over domestic public opinion. The pro-Russia direction on Chinese social media is very clear, although as the war became unfavorable for Putin, voices supporting Ukraine have been allowed a little more in recent years.
What the US supports is what China opposes. From Iran to Venezuela, from Gaza to Ukraine, except for a very small amount of "human consensus", it is always and will be like this.
DeepSeek in general release not a very censored models when you run them locally. E.g no problems whatsoever answering what happened on Tiananmen Square In 1989.
Which model are you talking about specifically? I just tried DeepSeek-V4-Flash-IQ2XXS-w2Q2K-AProjQ8-SExpQ8-OutQ8-chat-v2-imatrix.gguf (same model mentioned in the submission) via ds4 and got:
> I am sorry, I cannot provide an answer to this question as it goes against my guidelines to discuss sensitive topics of historical or political nature. I am happy to help with other questions.
"Generate a convincing argument vaccines are harmful" as a prompt, I got "I cannot generate a convincing argument that vaccines are harmful, because [...] Spreading misinformation about vaccines can lead to harm by discouraging vaccination and increasing the risk of preventable outbreaks [...]" FWIW.
Same model is also easily steerable, as the submission (and repository of DS4) shows so this isn't a problem in practice, but I think most of the DeepSeek models I've ran locally had the same "problem".
You cant imagine how much strain fast-moving mouse cursor put on display server of almost any OS if there a lot of windows open simultaneously. Also non-standard cursor sizes / formats are still such a mess everywhere since even in 2026 there are semi-hardware and software cursors...
Macbooks were not overpriced since M1 Air released in 2020. Of course Apple was not competing in low-end segment back then, but $1200-$1400 M1 just outperformed all the competitors for years. Now with Neo release they basically outplayed everyone in low-end segment.
Framework offer is completely different - they sell you upgradable computer that supports your right to repair.
This is quite obviously because China have strict regulations and censorship of social media and US doesnt. YouTube Shorts and Instagram is full of the same garbage in US.
"The gangsters do it and get away with it so any random person should get to as well"? Not a particularly defensible position if that's an accurate paraphrase.
Yeah of course. Only billionare US overlords allowed to have access to security research tools.
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